SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s “Kill This Love” has surpassed 600 million streams on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform, the group’s agency YG Entertainment said Monday. The achievement came about 10 months after the song passed 500 million, according to the agency. BLACKPINK is now the only K-pop [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — “Girls,” the second EP from South Korean girl group aespa, landed at No. 3 on U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart. Billboard has said in an article Sunday (U.S. time) that the quartet reached the milestone on the upcoming Billboard 200 chart for this week by earning 56,000 equivalent album [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop supergroup BTS dropped his first formal solo album Friday. “I did my best to make this album in order to show you a new side that you haven’t seen so far and myself having grown more,” the dancer-rapper said in a YouTube video introducing the new [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl group ITZY rolled out a new EP on Friday, to be followed by its first-ever U.S. tour, the group’s agency said. The album, titled “Checkmate,” is the band’s fifth EP and first release in about 10 months since its first full-length album “Crazy in Love” last September. [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A YouTube video of pianist Lim Yun-chan’s performance at the 16th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition this year has become the most viewed video out of all performances of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3. “This video just became the most watched version of this piece on YouTube,” the Van [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — “Girls,” the second EP from aespa, has broken the record for the biggest first week sales by a K-pop girl group in history, its agency said Thursday. The album set the record by selling more than 1.42 million copies in the first week of its release last Friday, SM [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Even 17 years after their debut, members of K-pop group Super Junior remained jolly and talkative, with their humorous remarks constantly drawing much laughter from the emcee, during an online press event in Seoul to promote a new album. “SM has a long history and has managed many artists, [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — All members of TWICE have renewed their contracts with JYP Entertainment, breaking the so-called “seven-year curse,” a crisis experienced by many K-pop idol groups around the seventh year of their debut. “We renewed contracts with all members ahead of the expiration of TWICE’s contracts this autumn,” the agency said [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope, the first BTS member to launch a solo venture, entered the U.S. Billboard’s main singles chart with “More,” the chart has said. The song debuted at No. 82 on the Hot 100 chart for this week, Billboard said on social media on Monday (U.S. time). It came out [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Just over 24 hours into their preseason tour to South Korea, Tottenham Hotspur players are putting in the work. Featuring South Korean icon and Premier League Golden Boot winner Son Heung-min, Tottenham will play two exhibition matches here this week: first, against Team K League, made up of stars [...]